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Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 1:19 am What if--instead of a 100-meter dash, javelin throw, or whatever--they had events such as how to fix a car engine of a vehicle that was actually broken down or building a shed someplace where one was actually needed and scored the winner based on who accomplished the task "best" (scored by judges in terms of time efficiency, aesthetic qualities and wastefulness of available resources, etc)? Instead of purely athletic events, they could substitute a beauty pageant and erotic dancing.

Constantine wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 1:45 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 1:19 am What if--instead of a 100-meter dash, javelin throw, or whatever--they had events such as how to fix a car engine of a vehicle that was actually broken down or building a shed someplace where one was actually needed and scored the winner based on who accomplished the task "best" (scored by judges in terms of time efficiency, aesthetic qualities and wastefulness of available resources, etc)? Instead of purely athletic events, they could substitute a beauty pageant and erotic dancing.

You are confusing the Olympics with a strip club. 20 years ago I would of said let's go, but now I just see some girl awkwardly nude with a drinking problem and I just want to help her get her GED. A naked teenage girl isn't as erotic to me as it once was, and a 30 year old with Ceasarian scars and pregnacy stretch marks even less so. No gold medals for those sluts. Shed sounds useful.

Wizard22 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 7:52 am Olympics needs a reset.

Males only, we can start with Wrestling, Track, and Field, cut all "judging" "sports", and work up from there. Maybe keep the competitions under a couple dozen varieties.

No "Winter Games".

Wizard22 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 7:52 am Olympics needs a reset.

Males only, we can start with Wrestling,

promethean75 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 3:01 pm We can also thin out the Olympics a bit. What's up with Curling? How is that even a sport?"

It only seems unordinary becuz it's not a popular sport, but really if u think about it, all sports are rather odd ideas that had to start somewhere with someone asking 'how is that even a sport?'

Sports with balls. Any of em. U either hit/kick the ball, put the ball somewhere, catch the ball, carry the ball or kill the guy with the ball

All this is very odd and only feels normal becuz it's been around for so long. Consider golf. The very idea of it. You're gonna make a little two inch hole in the ground on a twenty acre plot of land. Now go wayyyyy the fuck over there and see how many times u gotta hit this little ball to get it in that hole.

Golf is the very epitome of gross bourgeois indulgence. Just the necessary size of a golf course alone is an affront to the proletariat. All that land so those three rich white persons can dig a hole in the ground and tryda hit a little ball into it. I can think of nine thousand better things to do with that land and those rich white persons.